I make you nervous

I’m sorry

I don’t know why

I can’t read you

I don’t know you

Well enough to see

Why your shell

Is so easily cracked

Why your soul

is so easily stirred

Why your voice

Rises, shakes

Why do you talk

To the whole room

While only looking

At me, straight at me

Is it for agreement

Am I mean not to nod

Do you think I withhold

Or is it so that I will know

That what you say

Is what you think

I need to hear.

Do you want affirmed

Or do you want heard

Do you want to be seen

Or for me to know

That you see me

All I know

Is that it is clear

That I make you nervous

But there’s no need for that

I am with you